How to promote my website when completed?

The first step, and most important, is to register your site with major search engines (Google, MSN Live Search, Yahoo!), and the DMOZ and Yahoo directories. It may take several months if not years, to be included in these directories, and all sites are not necessarily accepted, so care must be taken to complete this step as soon as possible, and then forgotten . If your registration is crucial to these directories, you can always pay to be registered.Then you have to report his presence to directories and sub directories and local shares a theme relevant to your site. To find them, do a search with Google or Google France Canada French for "book" and add the keyword that defines your site, for example, "book shoes." If your site is a blog, find directories of blogs and enter the address of your RSS feeds.If you know of website owners, ask them to link to your site, especially if they have pages of favorite links. If you do not know, you can still explore a list of additional sites in the major and minor directories and ask politely, by their natural way of contact (follow their instructions, do not spam or you run the risk of having complaints about you and you could lose your account with your server), to make a link exchange if they have a mutual benefit.Another way to find sites that could share a common interest with yours is to search with your main keyword and explore the sites that position themselves advantageously in the results of search engines. You can also review incoming links with Yahoo! Site Explorer to popular sites for your theme.After the directories and complementary sites, the sites of Web 2.0 should also be considered to add a link to yours, such as: Wikipedia, del.icio.us, stumbleupon, myspace, facebook, etc..Social sites such as discussion forums or Yahoo! Answers can also be a field rich in reference and promotion. Choose an important forum related to your topic, sign up to participate in a serious and insert a link to your site in your signature for each message. In all cases, avoid at all costs the temptation to spam these websites, you do any good, and maybe even a little bad.I recently discovered an old message forum in English that lists the major viral promotion techniques, although a bit dated (2002!), The fundamentals still work: The Mostly Viral Top Traffic Alternatives to Search Engines List [en]If the above steps are not enough to bring the traffic you expect, you can still promote your site from programs and investments paid advertisements with search engines, like Google Adwords. These ads appear when keywords you have chosen to define your services will be recorded by the researchers and you will appear close to the results. With these programs, you only pay if people click and come to your site.You can also consider more traditional marketing tricks, such as a contest with some great prizes (a collection of books on amazon.com about you, for example), or if you have the technical knowledge, the creation of a tool -free online that will bring a lot of natural links.All this may seem a bit difficult and even boring, but the reality is hyper competitive world of web, all projects with the potential will always require serious efforts, as in any other commercial sphere of this world. This is why we always advise to sites on subjects that really interest you, otherwise it becomes tedious after a while.Good luck!